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Office 2007 Roaming QAT Quick Access Toolbar

Feb 18

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In our setup i am using roaming profiles in my Citrix XenApp setup since users are load balanced over multiple xenapp servers. And this time i really thought that i had done everything i could do for the end users (preserving their data,settings etc) but once again – i were wrong.

It seems that if you use the quick access toolbar in eg. Word, those settings will be appended to C:\Users\john\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\word.qat (etc)

which is local and not roaming – and therefore wont be updated on your UserProfiles network share.

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pleasing your mac mini to eject your dvd

Feb 16

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First off, theres a million ways to eject the dvd drive if its stuck, so go google if this article isnt enough for you.

ive been all the way around from pressing multiple keys at boot up, clicking the left mouse button, etc etc etc.

and since im using Windows 7 (go hate on me mac fanboys) i can´t use various os x ways.

anyway, when trying to eject your cd/dvd from windows, it pops up with a message i forgot all about (some weird error) and its just impossible to eject it.

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Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile

Feb 9

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I got this error message when logging in directly to an XenApp server with a users profile

after spending some time troubleshooting a sync issue.

The user had problems with settings not being saved (small settings in outlook,word etc) and like the outlook signature dissapeard.none of the gpo’s was restricted, and when testing myself with a test user, i had none of the above problems.

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Enabling Citrix users to launch streamed applications from within published explorer.

Feb 2

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Scenario ->

1) Explorer.exe is published for your users to use (browsing shared folders, private folders, etc)

2) Main part of Office 2007 is installed locally on your golden XenApp image (win2k8)

3) A few applications like Visio, OneNote, Project are profiled and streamed to server

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Troubleshooting keyboard layout/language settings in a citrix environment.

Feb 2

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In this setup, i had a mix of normal pc’s and a bunch of new mac (airbooks) which ran both snow leopard and Windows 7.

It started out with the some users complaining about their danish published office applications switched to using US keyboard layout

and naturally i started testing (logged on with same user account) and found no issues at all. We tested a bit, playing around with the language bar

and the local region settings, and we found out that on the airbooks, on windows 7, it had 2 keyboard layouts installed (da-dk, and danish-apple)

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Changing Default save as location in Outlook 2007

Jan 20

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My setup contains Windows 2008 R2 64bit Domain controllers, Windows 2008 SP2 64bit Citrix XenApp Servers, with Exchange 2007.

I restricted access to to prevent users from browsing though the c:\ – which forced me to use the administrative office 2007 gpo templates

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1406 Error – Could not write value InstallPath to key\Software…

Dec 9

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I recently tried to install vSphere PowerCLI from VMware on my Windows 7 64-bit installation.

and i was met with the error message above.

theres probably multiple answers to solving this problem. some say that you need to run it as administrator permissions (doh) and some want you to change permissions on the

registry vmware path.

what almost worked for me was deleting the reg entry “HKLM\Software\VMware Inc” and then just retrying with the installation. i however, had to delete the entry

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.” for it to work.

Belkin F5U103vea Vista/7 Driver

Nov 18

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First the good thing – I got a new laptop recently.. – and the bad thing – no serial port. Since i from time to time need to configure firewalls im in a big need of that.

anyway – a quick search oh my resellers website told me that i could buy one of these smart “Belkin…..” usb-to-serial adapters. which was Windows 7 certified (i just read it as – of course it works with windows 7 – go buy it! )

The next day i got it with mail – its actually better quality than expected, and it didnt took me long to hook it up. Now the next thing i expected,was for windows 7 to just search for a driver and install it like it did with most of my other hardware. instead it told me to *** off – and go find a driver myselfe.

to make a long story short – go google “Belkin F5U103vea” Vista for yourselfe, and you will quickly find out that – its either impossible to find, or your download link ends with …/super-driver-downloader-professional2010.exe.

It seems like those bastards from Belkin didnt bother to host a driver that works with their product – or link to one. It turns out (like alot of other hardware) that its rebranded.

its from a company called Prolific Technology inc. And its original name is “PL-2303 USB to Serial Bridge”

you can find it on this website or directly link

so to summarize this post….. fuck you belkin for wasting my time which i could have spent on youporn instead.

Couldn’t find device with uuid ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxx’

Oct 29

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From time to time you or lvm arent perfectly good at cleaning up after youselves when adding/removing disks for one or another reason

and even though everything works, you get spammed with errors like.

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